Rain and Champagne Soaked the U.S. Open
Today is the Men’s Final at the U.S. Open tennis tournament (at 4pm Eastern). Because of rain delays throughout the two-week Grand Slam event, the finals was rescheduled from its usual place on Sunday....
View ArticleKeith Hernandez On Hamptons Eating
A Keith Hernandez sighting! The New York Mets broadcaster, former major leaguer and “a little bit epicurean” lives in Sag Harbor and shared nine of his favorite Hamptons dining spots with Food...
View ArticleVideo: Carla Hall On Meeting Her Husband
“The Chew,” an hourlong daytime talk show about food debuts on ABC Monday, Sept 26. A few days before the debut, one of the stars, Carla Hall, a former model and Top Chef contestant, was spending some...
View ArticleGuy Fieri To Open NYC Restaurant?
At a talk at the Times Center Saturday, Guy Fieri said he is in talks to open a restaurant in Manhattan. “You want to hear a secret?” Fieri asked about 600 people gathered to hear him interviewed as...
View ArticleSam Sifton’s Secret Identities
Sam Sifton’s final article as The New York Times restaurant critic was, as always, terrifically written, informative and fun. But there was something strange in the photo that appeared above the...
View ArticleA Very Expensive Dinner For Sale
I thought it was impressive a few years back when a friend picked up a check for one of the best meals I’ve ever had in New York City. It was at Jean-Georges and the check for four people was – I...
View ArticleA Traveling Man’s Breakfast
I ate at The French Laundry two nights ago. Yesterday’s lunch was lamb loin and pumpkin ravioli served overlooking plucked grapevines at the Staglin Family Vineyard in Napa Valley, and dinner was...
View ArticleScott Conant’s Beard Debuts in Miami
Scott Conant, standing under a tent Thursday night at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, credits his new beard to his music tastes. “I’ve been listening to a lot of ‘outlaw country,'” he says. The...
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Here’s A Typewritten List Of The Original Food Network Show Concepts
Twenty-one years ago, when Food Network was just an idea sketched out in a typewritten business plan moldering at a Rhode Island cable company, the writers of the plan threw in a rather hilarious set...
View ArticleThe Food Network Was Announced 20 Years Ago Today
It was 20 years ago today that Schonfeld taught the band to play… This is the press release from Nov 1, 1993 announcing a forthcoming new cable network, then called TVFN, which would debut November 23,...
View ArticleRuth Reichl On Bobby Flay: Does He Lack Confidence In The Staff At Gato?
I interviewed Ruth Reichl yesterday for a podcast I do, "New Books in Food." Amongst the many interesting things she talked about on the occasion of the release of her first novel Delicious! was how...
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